Coast Guard searching for missing 32-year-old man in Chesapeake Bay

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is searching Monday for a 32-year-old man who was reported to have fallen overboard from the 170-foot fishing vessel Fleeton during the vessel’s southbound transit in the Chesapeake Bay.

The master of the Fleeton contacted Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads Command Center watchstanders at approximately 9 a.m. reporting a crewmember was last seen as the vessel was transiting the Chesapeake Bay, and the crewmember hadn’t been seen or heard from in a few hours.